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Coronavirus... Who's telling the truth?!
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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 6800943" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>My feeling is its not the fatality rate thats concerning the authorities, though thats bad enough, it is considerably worse than normal flu. I think its the transmission rate thats causing them to worry. If a disease kills 1% of those infected, then if only a few tens or hundreds of thousands get infected then there won't be many deaths, and more importantly there won't be economic disruption. If on the other hand millions get infected then there will be a LOT of deaths and worse than that (from a 'making sure society continues to function' perspective) millions will be off work. Potentially meaning services start to collapse, which could then have severe domino knock on effects.</p><p></p><p>SARS was a more deadly disease than the coronavirus but transmission was harder, so the overall impact was minor. This one seems to be very infectious, so the likelihood of millions being sick at the same time has got to be considerably higher.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 6800943, member: 818"] My feeling is its not the fatality rate thats concerning the authorities, though thats bad enough, it is considerably worse than normal flu. I think its the transmission rate thats causing them to worry. If a disease kills 1% of those infected, then if only a few tens or hundreds of thousands get infected then there won't be many deaths, and more importantly there won't be economic disruption. If on the other hand millions get infected then there will be a LOT of deaths and worse than that (from a 'making sure society continues to function' perspective) millions will be off work. Potentially meaning services start to collapse, which could then have severe domino knock on effects. SARS was a more deadly disease than the coronavirus but transmission was harder, so the overall impact was minor. This one seems to be very infectious, so the likelihood of millions being sick at the same time has got to be considerably higher. [/QUOTE]
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